RIP: Geocities, 1995-2009

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief April 24, 2009 · 1 min read

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Yahoo has finally decided to shut down its long-time free-hosting service, Geocities. It was 10 years ago that Yahoo acquired Geocities for a huge sum of $3.57 billion.

There will be no more sign-ups starting today and towards the end of this year, all existing accounts will be shut down as well. Active users are advised to download and save their data from their accounts.

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Yahoo is offering its professional web hosting services to those who still want to continue and move their sites (its the paid service though). For others, they will still be free hosting service to move to like Blogger or WordPress. I guess Yahoo is just saving up some money in this tough times and it looks like Geocities could be burning some serious cash.

I think I had my very first website back in the 90s on Geocities (or was it Angelfire?). In the days before blogging was known to man, having a Geocities account was the “in thing” then.

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72 Comments

MAÐ™Ð¯ · 17 years ago

syxx · 17 years ago

sino may account ng geocities?
nabigyan kasi ako ng parang promo para mgmigrate sa new host system kaso need ng account ng geocites un ang pang verify na subs ka nga. free domain hosting at registration for 2 years with unlimited bandwidth. meron pa ako 5 code. email nio lang ako d2 ge****@gmail.com

july23 · 17 years ago

I use to have geocities account before when i started web developing,is was a big contribution with my learning.
RIP to geocities. lol

Liz · 17 years ago

awww, nandun yung first ever website ko! hehe.

Gerard Banasig · 17 years ago

Geocities will always be remembered, a website back then http://geocities.com/itlivewire/main.html

CC Lozano · 17 years ago

That’s sad. I too used to have a Geocities account.

alejojoe a.k.a. josewerkz · 17 years ago

it is home for some bogus sites too… maybe that’s one of the reason they have to shut it down. well, its just a maybe.

Niick · 17 years ago

Sabi na nga ba darating rin to. Closing Geocities to clear up some space for their unlimited storage in email. Tsk3

jared · 17 years ago

lol i think geocities is ugly

abscbnlive · 17 years ago

i will miss geocities

work at home dad · 17 years ago

One of the first websites are in Geocities and angelfire.

It guess its about time to cut on operating expenses that does not bring profit.

Ederic · 17 years ago

Sa Geocities ko rin ginawan ng sites ang orgs ko sa college nung mid to late 90s.

Student Athlete · 17 years ago

Ouch! I’m a very sentimental person. I value my first site; that is hosted on Geocities.

Domotics · 17 years ago

Thats really sad…I will have to download all of my files. Thanks for the info. It was really helpfull.

Gwapito.com · 17 years ago

I’ve had my first ever website built at Geocities too. Though i only used their free templates, but also had my first tastes of what HTML was about.

Brighterside.co.cc · 17 years ago

Papalitan ba nila ung Geocities ng ibang hosting program?

william · 17 years ago

i used geocities too. it’s a pity that yahoo didn’t properly manage geocities it had potential.

SEO to Hobbies| CarloBlogg Online · 17 years ago

the images in my blog are hosted by Geocities :D time to backup them! WAH! :-0

tank · 17 years ago

we will miss you geo. my first hosting website… /sob

Darren · 17 years ago

In early internet times, many websites hosted @ geocities where I download beauty & porn pics, hehe. Kind of sad indeed ~~~

buknoii · 17 years ago

I used to have lots of websites hosted by geocities.. geeez this is sad :(

http://encyclopedia.clickdavao.com

Ed · 17 years ago

aww i remember my first geocities website back in 1995.. it was a tribute to my favorite rap group Wu-Tang Clan.. hahaha wow how times have changed

Dinah · 17 years ago

hindi ako nagkalakas ng loob mag open ng site sa geocities before. i hope this wont happen to blogger and wordpress.

deuts · 17 years ago

I created a site also at geocities before I actually started blogging. The site is still up, though I’ll be sad about this development. You can still access the site I had at geocities.com/jotuvillo

Snow · 17 years ago

I guess this is expected since the US Companies are on the losing side. Most of the corporations are in debt.

Maybe Yahoo is cost-cutting and shutting this down is the best option to save more this 2009.

Rome · 17 years ago

what?! Geocities shutting down?! They’ve shut down Yahoo! Briefcase first, now this? well, yeah! I really feel nostalgic about it. This is where my first website was hosted. Now, i’m using Google Pages. And Blogger too! They’re easier to use.. And I like that they’re using AJAX technology. :)

Essays.ph · 17 years ago

I’ve used that on my very first html project in Highschool.

– Paul Agabin
Essays.ph

Jhay · 17 years ago

Ah nostalgia! I hope users of the sites I’ve bookmarked have heard of this and would backup their sites, some of the best references for local history are hosted on Geocities.

Acne Treatments Asia · 17 years ago

its sad to say that there would be a lot of newbies in website building that would be affected. my first website is also hosted on geocities.

Andre Marcelo-Tanner · 17 years ago

aww, i used to have a site on geocities because of the large space they gave you (50MB was it?) but then i used angelfire as my url because it was shorter